Claretha Hughes is Professor of Human Resource and Workforce Development at the University of Arkansas, USA. She has over 27 years of diverse management, supervisory, and administrative experience in organizational and workforce development. She is a member of Association for Talent Development and has edited and published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources, Human Resource Development Review, and Workforce Education Forum. She has written and edited 8 books. Her book Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework won the R. Wayne Pace Book of the Year award in 2012. She has a PhD from Virginia Tech, USA and her MBA is from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, USA.